Most believers understand that lying is a sin. Not so many know that it's also a sin to believe a lie. But this was the first sin of Man. Adam and Eve didn't lie. Their first and most devastating sin was that they believed a lie. But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not … [Read more...] about The Sin of Believing a Lie
Truth
The Inconvenient Truth
In a recent interview, Journalist Walter Kirn told a story that says a lot about our deep desire to avoid displeasing other people with the inconvenient truth. On the morning that the Twin Towers in New York City collapsed (an event commonly known as 9-11), one of the richest … [Read more...] about The Inconvenient Truth
Live Not By Lies
Written on the 12th February 1974, the same day he was arrested by the secret police and sent into exile, "Live not by lies," was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's call to speak the truth always and at all times, without fear. The issue for Solzhenitsyn then, as today, was this: Are the … [Read more...] about Live Not By Lies
The Cost of Faithful Worship
One of the things we learn from the opening chapters of 1 Samuel is that it's God who opens and shuts things. If Hannah cannot bear children it is because God has shut her womb. If Hannah bears a son it is because God has opened her womb. Beyond childbearing, we recognise this … [Read more...] about The Cost of Faithful Worship
Our Finest Dungarees
As it was for the new Christian in Corinth, 65AD, so it is for us today. We come into the kingdom dressed in our finest rags. We come from other churches, other traditions and other cultures. We want to settle into this new life and not have to think too much, not have to wrestle … [Read more...] about Our Finest Dungarees